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Climate change and health in Nepal
… continue to rise in the coming years partly due to increases in the human population, vehicles, development activities, and change in … showing some in-country review and analysis on relationship between human health and climate change including variability and extreme …
Publication, 01 January 2008
Three people gather to discuss a document one of them is holding in his hand
Climate action: let’s be bold in Bonn
… don’t typically think long term because for 99% of the history of human civilisation we’ve been accustomed to thinking day-to-day, … in five- to 10-year cycles. Thinking in timeframes that approach a human lifetime, let alone two or three lifetimes, just isn’t what we’re …
Insight, 14 June 2019
Women from Paraguay's Ita Guasu indigenous community discuss their community development plan. Civil debate and value-based decision making will be key to implementing the SDGs (Photo: USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Positioning the SDGs within the politics of national development
… point? International events, from the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm to the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable … 40 years later, have focused on the links between the environment, human development and economic growth. But they have not yet mobilised … previous frameworks, they recognise the inter-relationships between human development and the environmental, economic, social and political …
Insight, 12 July 2016
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'Land grabbing': is conservation part of the problem or the solution?
… presents the experience of international development, wildlife and human rights practitioners, shared at a symposium on land grabbing and …
Publication, 01 September 2013
Sewing on the street in Djibouti. The informal sector still plays an important role in most of the LDCs (Photo: Charles Roffey, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Five obstacles facing Least Developed Countries
… In fact, much evidence suggests the most limiting factors are weak human resource and unstable institutions; countries that have made sufficient investment in building their human and institutional capital have been able to withstand temporary … priority should be given to investments directed towards enhancing human and institutional capital.   Lack of progress on 'means of …
Insight, 29 June 2016
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Sustainable Sector Transformation: How to drive sustainability performance in smallholder-dominated agricultural sectors?
… to ensure food security, a healthy natural resource base and human wellbeing. Addressing sustainability issues in agro-commodity …
Publication, 01 April 2015
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Addressing Sustainable Consumption and Production in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Publication, 01 February 2014
View of a road cutting through a forest
Wild meat: is there an appetite for alternatives?
… for safeguarding global food security, and as the foundation of human health. Sustainable use of our natural resources supports healthy … shines a spotlight on the inextricable link between food security, human wellbeing and biodiversity. If we are to “ bend the curve of …
Insight, 21 May 2019
More than 100 representatives of indigenous mountain communities met in Peru's Potato Park in April 2017 to share their expertise and build their international network (Photo: Lucia Flórez Zelaya)
Mountain indigenous peoples call for support for biocultural landscapes to achieve the SDGs
News, 28 June 2017
A 'living room on the street' in Paposh Nagar, Karachi (Photo: Fareena Chanda)
Alternative routes to urban density
… Under the leadership of Arif Hasan , the IIED Human Settlements research group engaged with local partners to identify …
Project, 16 July 2015